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The word 'blackpool'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blackpoolOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of blackpool in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Nellie takkin a coach trip te Blackpool. Gweed Goad, though, at's a b on page 22

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Our review of @DoricHotel Blackpool, can you guess why we wanted (2017)
m Ferryhill was on holiday in Blackpool and chipped his tooth on a bi(2017)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Singin in Blackpool on page 170

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Davy an his wife had been at Blackpool fur the weekend an they broug on page 99
een is a midnight bus run tae Blackpool before Karen wis born that ah on page 164

2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
th ah love as much as ah love Blackpool or Benidorm, it's Craig Tara. on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
e huv a patch oan the wans in Blackpool, ah missed the hills whenever on page 22

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ion fur cut-price caravans in Blackpool. The caravan hud three bedroo on page 30
e entertained. She'd been tae Blackpool dozens o times. Once we cross on page 31
hur dancin at the ballroom at Blackpool Tower tae cheer hur up afterw on page 32
'Ye've mair front than Blackpool, young man!" on page 61

6 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
mon blackpool, don't dae this tae me!!(2013)

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